Word: joys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joy of an affluent passerby who casts a handful of pennies into the street to watch the urchins scramble is doubtless being tasted on much larger scale by Edward W. Bok, who offered $100,000 for a practical plan for international peace in which the U. S. can participate (TIME, July 9). The deadline for submitting plans brought the contest to a close with 22,165 plans submitted. On the last day over 700 were presented to the Policy Committee of the American Peace Award...
Indeed throughout the book Mr. Sergel suffers from the racial diseases of all the modern realists. He is determined to hear no good, see no good, speak no good. He recognizes no sense of happiness, no joy of living, save of an artificial and transient sort. Even his love between men and women never rises above the flesh. He measures the sensations of the lower middle class on the scale of his own--as he would have us believe--hyper-sensitive palate and nostril. In his eyes they know no beauty whatsoever, and no pleasure but that which he takes...
...independence of the statement, "our color-sense had been more educated than that of the Greeks, though our sensitiveness to proportion is perhaps less acute" is a comfort in an age when all men either worship or else utterly contemn all things Greek. And it is a real joy to hear, in this hurried age, so safe and exposition of the doctrine of leisure...
...such a team that Harvard faces tomorrow. Victory would fill the cup of joy to overflowing. Defeat would have only one consolation--the chance to honor another fine Princeton team...
...competent to judge a movement among undergraduates. They are not always what they seem. Their faculty of burlesque and fun-making being what it is, they sometimes appear to attack themselves to freakish agitation or to reforms that are hard to distinguish from fads, merely out of the pure joy of mystifying their elders. Hence reports that students at Harvard or Princeton or elsewhere are caught indulging in the rites of the Klan, or in improvised imitations of them, may not mean more than that a few hilarious spirits are having their thing at a passing madness. The only thing...